Orson Welles Quotes

It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.

Where you're from shapes you, but you can actually do whatever you want.

I am my own person.

I always said all my life if I wasn't born and they gave me the question I'd say I don't want to be born.

Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.

I don't use labels a lot.

I'm a big believer in everybody being themselves. If not doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, that's great. But if doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, then you should be able to do it. What I do outside the car adds to who I am and expresses a different side of me.

Taking care of myself is central to my personality. I'm pathologically independent. There's no doubt that's one reason I never had children.

I can be whoever I want. I can feel however I want.

Of course it would disgust me to tell anyone how to live.

When you make that choice of stepping out and facing the issue of disclosure, you do create this kind of self-imposed negative fear. It's unfortunate it still happens today. 'Do I step out and say I'm a gay guy?' But you have got to do it and live your life on your terms and no one else's terms.

I'm just doing what I want. I'm not thinking, like, 'Today I'm going to dress like a woman.' I'm not even thinking about that. I'm just thinking, 'I want to wear this today; I want to be this today.'

Each of us has a right to name ourselves as we will.

I've got to do it my way. I can't compromise and be someone else.

Oh, I don't like labels.

Everyone's an individual and individuality is such a strong thing in our society so that translates into wrestling.

I'm not gonna tell any man what he should do in life.

You make yourself be whatever the hell you want to be, at the end of the day.

The world is fixated on defining and redefining what is feminine. That is for every individual to decide for herself.

I did not want to be an engineer or be in information technology, and my parents were supportive of my decision.

I didn't want to be a sex symbol. That was perhaps my mistake, but you can't really change who you are.

I feel like how I live my life is my own political statement.

I want people to understand why I'm not 'P1' or 'P2.'

People can identify as however you want to. Right on. Go for it. But my strategy in this bigger game of life is to not identify as anything.

Choices are a very important part of our lives.